Two Accused Of Aggravated Robbery, Burglary In Crawford County

Two men accused of stealing two vehicles, robbing two juveniles and burglarizing a home pleaded not guilty to multiple felonies Wednesday in Crawford County Circuit Court.

Logan Chase Flaherty, 20, of West Fork and Scott Anthony Martini, 19, of Jay, Okla., are each charged with aggravated robbery, residential burglary, two counts of false imprisonment and theft of property.

The public defender’s office is representing Flaherty and Martini, who are both being held on $8,500 bond.

The men were arrested Jan. 20, after a Crawford County sheriff’s deputy stopped at a gas station near the intersection of Arkansas 282 and U.S. 64 to check on a vehicle parked behind the building.

The deputy discovered two vehicles, Flaherty standing next to one and Martini sitting inside the other, with a “large amount of property laying on the ground” near the vehicle where Flaherty was standing, according to an offense report.

While one deputy questioned the men, another deputy recognized them as the suspects who used a stolen credit card a local gas station. The credit card was reported stolen in a burglary in Mountainburg. Both Martini and Flaherty were arrested, according to the report.

When Capt. Shawn Firestine, Crawford County Sheriff’s Office, arrived at the scene, he recognized the men as matching the description of suspects in the armed robbery of two Mountainburg juveniles, according to a probable cause affidavit.

In that case, two men got in the juveniles’ vehicle drove them to an ATM, claimed to have guns and one of the men showed the juveniles a knife. The suspects attempted to get cash from the ATM, according to the affidavit.

The men then drove the victims to Arkansas 348 and U.S. 71 where they took $4 from a female victim and both victims’ cell phones before they left, according to the affidavit.

Aggravated robbery is a Class Y felony punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. Residential burglary is a Class B felony punishable by five to 20 years in prison. False imprisonment and theft of property are both a Class C felony punishable by three to 10 years in prison.